Tiger Woods’s Year So Far Is Pretty Much Par for the Course

• General Motors has anointed Daniel F. Akerson its new chief executive officer. Akerson, a G.M. board member, will replace Edward E. Whitacre Jr. (And people say no one can get a job in this economy!) [The New York Times]

• BP will pay more than $50 million in fines for its behavior leading up to an oil refinery explosion in 2005 that killed 15 workers. The company will also invest half a billion dollars into the Texas City, Texas, refinery as part of an effort to revamp the site’s safety measures. [The Wall Street Journal]

• Talk radio’s Dr. Laura Schlessinger (“Dr. Laura”) has admitted that her use of the n-word—“She said the word over and over, and in a very animated way,” said Al Sharpton—was indeed “the wrong thing.” [CNN]

• Tiger Woods, golfer by trade, posted the worst score of his career last week. There’s a possibility he will not qualify for the PGA Championship. “Life in general the last nine months has been very difficult,” said Woods. [The Washington Post]

• A $600 million bill to increase Southwest border security passed in the Senate yesterday. President Obama is expected to sign the legislation into law sometime today. [Politico]